iPhone (Verizon) in Moscow & St. Petersburg?
Vanessa Prolow
vprolow at GMAIL.COM
Sat Apr 12 11:23:23 UTC 2014
Disregard my last message, apparently iphone 5s have SIM card slots for GSM, even if sold for CDMA networks. But I would call verizon to verify everything, especially re: locked/unlocked.
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> On Apr 12, 2014, at 6:37, Kristin Bidoshi <bidoshik at UNION.EDU> wrote:
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> Amanda,
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> The I-phone 5 is unlocked, so you can purchase a Russian Sim (Nano for the 5) with a data plan. My plan is 500 rubles/month, but has a huge data plan - something like 25 hours of SKYPE capability per month (important for me as I talk with my kids every day). I'm in Irkutsk so the plans may be much cheaper here.
>
> No need to carry two phones.. Also, if you don't have Viber, you may want to look into that as well.
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> Best, Kristin
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Apr 12, 2014, at 6:28 AM, "Renee (Stillings) Huhs" <renee at ALINGA.COM> wrote:
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>> Somewhat related to this – I have used the T-Mobile free data roaming in Russia and overall it works well. No additional charge and you get unlimited data (email/internet) and SMS. And local calls only $0.20/min. So unlike in the past, I do keep my US phone “live” while in Russia and don’t panic about the $5/min (like it used to be) when someone calls for no particular reason. Only two issues. First, I sometimes find that I cannot SMS successfully every Russian number – can’t figure out why some get through and not others. But I also have this issue from the US when SMS’ing Russia. Second, if you have locals calling you, they may not want to have to call a US number to do so. Thus, if I am there longer than a day or two I also use a secondary local phone.
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>> Renee
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>> Ditto. Please ON-LIST!
>> --Elisabeth Elliott
>> Slavic Dept.
>> Northwestern University
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>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Amanda Ewington <amewington at davidson.edu> wrote:
>> Dear Colleagues,
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>> For travel to Russia I usually purchase a Russian SIM card to use in my old "unlocked" flip phone. This time around I am wondering whether it makes sense to try Verizon's "Global data" plan. Looks pretty good on paper, but I am wondering if it actually works. I'd love to hear from anyone with direct experience using Verizon's Global plans on an iPhone 5S in Moscow & St. Petersburg.
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>> Please respond off list: amewington at davidson.edu
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>> Thank you!
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>> Amanda
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